Re: Problems installing Debian on Powerbooks
From the installer menu, choose "Execute a shell". Then run the "bash" command to get a proper shell.
From there, navigate to /var/log and locate the syslog file. You should be able to upload that file using the scp command.
Adrian
> On Mar 7, 2017, at 8:35 PM, Nicholas Dal Porto <macmaniac5@comcast.net> wrote:
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> How might I retrieve that?
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> Sent from my iPhone
>> On Mar 7, 2017, at 11:32 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
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>> Wait!
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>> I don't think it's an HDD issue.
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>> Can you try to provide the /var/log/syslog file from the installation process?
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>> This will include the actual error messages.
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>> Adrian
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>>> On Mar 7, 2017, at 8:07 PM, Nicholas Dal Porto <sjobsrocks@me.com> wrote:
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>>> Alright, now I'm getting a "target installation failed" on the "Install base system" phase. I think it's an issue with my HDD - I never tested it before I installed it. Going to swap in a known good one in a bit.
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>>>>> On Mar 7, 2017, at 8:20 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
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>>>>> On 03/07/2017 04:54 PM, Nicholas Dal Porto wrote:
>>>>> 1) did you have the original Apple hard drive and if so, how did you format it?
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>>>> I actually installed it onto an external Firewire drive. I also don't think at
>>>> all that this is relevant because the firmware issues usually only existed
>>>> on MacOS itself. One of the issues was that on MacOS versions around 7.x,
>>>> Apple's own partitioning tool would refuse to partition a disk if it didn't
>>>> have Apple's original firmware. You could use a patched version of the
>>>> utility to circumvent that.
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>>>> The disk itself was blank.
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>>>>> 2) what operating system did you burn the ISO with and how
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>>>> I burnt the ISO on Linux. Please refrain from using tools like unetbootin
>>>> or similar [1]. Lots of people have done that in the past and created
>>>> broken installer images.
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>>>> Use a proper CD writing software and the unaltered ISO files directly
>>>> from Debian. Writing the ISO files with the software in OSX should
>>>> work fine as well. I used that in the past, too.
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>>>> Adrian
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>>>>> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775689
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